Karnataka’s Varun registers win

Tribune News Service

Mohali, October 24

Karnataka’s Varun Kashyap managed to surpass a tough challenge by Harshit Kumar of Bihar in the second leg of the UTT National Ranking North Zone Table Tennis Championship at the Sports Complex in Sector 78 here today.

Kumar kept his opponent on the tenterhooks. However, Kashyap managed to take the last game to register (11-1, 3-11, 11-6, 5-11 and 11-7) victory.

Delhi’s Atherva Gupta also struggled before overcoming Punjab’s Vanad Kumar, who needed to win the last two games to beat the Punjab lad. The Delhi boy won (8-11, 11-6, 11-13, 11-7 and 11-4). Rajasthan’s Aaron Gupta managed to put it across Daksh Khandelwal of Delhi to win (11-7, 7-11, 7-11, 11-9 and 11-8), while Haryana’s Siddhant Kataria also defeated Delhi’s Arjav Gupta (8-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5 and 11-5) to rekindle hopes. The match between Gujarat’s Dhyey Jain and Arjit Das of National Centre of Excellence, Kolkata, also got stretched with the Gujarat boy romping home (11-8, 9-11, 11-7, 5-11 and 12-10) victorious.

Aashish Jain of Delhi began and ended well after Shreyas Mane from Maharashtra gave some torrid moments. Jain beat Mane (11-7, 7-11, 11-8, 7-11 and 11-9). Oishik Ghosh of Bengal was not lucky as he went down (3-11, 11-7, 11-9, 10-12 and 9-11) to Navaneeth Kutty of TNTTA. Rishabh Mayank of Haryana defeated Rohan Dani, a wildcard entrant from TTFI, (11-6, 9-11, 11-8, 2-11 and 11-2) in a bottom group. However, Rajkhowa Roy, also a wildcard, beat Shrisha Roy of Bengal (12-10, 9-11, 11-4, 9-11 and 11-8).